Paul Judge

Sir Paul Rupert Judge (25 April 1949 – 21 May 2017) was an English business and political figure. He served as Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts, President of the Chartered Management Institute, and Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association. He also served as the Director General of the Conservative Party and a Ministerial Advisor to the Cabinet Office. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Early life Paul Rupert Judge was born at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in London on 25 April 1949. As a child, he attended St Dunstan's College, an independent school in Catford, London.

Career His early career was with Cadbury Schweppes, where he undertook a number of international postings and projects, and where he led the buyout of their food companies in 1985 to form Premier Brands, which was successfully sold in 1989.

In the 2000s, he was Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts and of Teachers TV, President of the Chartered Management Institute, Deputy Chairman of the American Management Association, a Director of Standard Bank Group of South Africa, which is Africa's largest bank and is quoted on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Marketors. On 17 December 2013, Judge was appointed a Brother of the Order of St John by Queen Elizabeth II.

Cambridge Judge Business School

In 1990, the University of Cambridge announced that it would be naming its world-ranking business school after Judge, a British businessman and Cambridge alumnus. Judge provided an endowment of £8 million to the University as a financial foundation for the Cambridge Judge Business School. At the time, this was one of the largest donations to any British university, though subsequent endowments have grown progressively larger. He was an Emeritus Trustee of the Cambridge Foundation and a member of the University of Cambridge's Alumni Advisory Board (for which he chaired the University's Alumni Communications Group).

Judge maintained an active presence at the University of Cambridge throughout his life, serving in a number of positions and working with his business colleagues to help make the University of endowment the largest of any university outside the United States. Judge was also a Member of the Finance Committee and of the Alumni Advisory Committee of Trinity College.

Personal life and death He married Jane Urquart at Trinity College Chapel on 10 July 1976, and their divorce was finalised on 24 April 1980. In 1983, he married Anne Foff; they had two children and divorced in 2001. Judge died in the London Borough of Lambeth on 21 May 2017, aged 68.

Following Judge's death, numerous tributes were written about him from the marketing industry, the Association of MBAs and entrepreneurs he had supported.